Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (born 1946) was a former commander of the Northern Alliance who later defected to Al-Qaeda.

Biography
Born in the Paghman Valley of Afghanistan, Sayyaf fought in the Soviet-Afghan War against the Soviet Union and the communist Afghan army. After the war's end in 1989 he fought as a commander of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban who threatened to take over the government, although he was on friendly terms with Al-Qaeda. In 2001 he betrayed the alliance and was one of the men responsible for the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, and in 2007 he called for the amnesty of former mujahideen.